venery

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /'vɛnəri/

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English venerie, from Middle French, from venerie (“‘to hunt’”), from Latin vēnor

[edit] Noun

venery (plural veneries)

1. hunting for wild animals.
   • 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.

     But soon enough he’d wake up the second, real time, to make again the tiresome discovery that it hadn’t really ever stopped being the same simple-minded, literal pursuit; V. ambiguously a beast of venery, chased like the hart, hind or hare, chased like an obsolete, or bizarre, or forbidden form of sexual delight.

2. Game animals.

[edit] Derived terms

• beast of venery
• terms of venery

[edit] Etymology 2

Mediaeval Latin veneria, from venus' ‘love’.

[edit] Noun

venery (plural veneries)

1. the pursuit of sexual pleasure or indulgence